Please add -creator to the dos command where you make a collection , for example

you could try

C:\Program Files\gsdl>perl -S mkcol.pl -creator admin@rtg.com chandru

Hope this helps,

Thanks,
Vidya

Quoting Chandru <chandru_nice@yahoo.com>:

> Thanx for replying sirs
> I have tried that with collection name of one letter
> to 8 letters like
> a
> aa
> aaa
> .
> .
> aaaaaaaa
>
> i am getting the same error
>
> for example
> C:\Program Files\gsdl>perl -S mkcol.pl admin@rtg.com
> aaa
> ERROR: The collection name must be less than 8
> characters
> so compatibility with earlier filesystems can
> be
> maintained.
>
> Any other ideas plz
> regards
> chandru
>
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